Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <26.6.3>=27.0.0 <27.2.0>=28.0.0 <28.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.63% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6137744
  • published22 Dec 2023
  • disclosed20 Dec 2023
  • creditClément Lecigne, Vlad Stolyarov

Introduced: 20 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-7024  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 26.6.3, 27.2.0, 28.1.0 or higher.

Overview

electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow in the WebRTC framework, used to provide Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via JavaScript APIs.

CVSS Scores

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